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Parietal Cortex
The parietal cortex is an area of the brain which is believed to process all spatial location and direction information.
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Can culture dictate the way we see?
The way the primary visual cortex in the brain develops, may not be hardwired after all, but may develop according to experience, according to some fairly stunning revelations from the University of Illinois in Urbana, US, in early 2007.
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(24/09/2007)
Richard Haier of the University of California-Irvine and Rex Jung of the University of New Mexico have identified a brain network they believe is the biological basis of intelligence.
They believe the frontal and parietal lob...
(08/05/2009)
Free will, or at least the place where we decide to act, resides in a part of the brain called the parietal cortex, new research suggests.
When a neurosurgeon electrically jolted this region in patients undergoing surgery, th...
(01/09/2009)
Brain imaging shows playing Tetris leads to a thicker cortex and may also increase brain efficiency, according to research published in the open access journal BMC Research Notes. A research team based in New Mexico is one of the first to i...
(03/11/2012)
The brain holds in mind what has just been seen by synchronizing brain waves in a working memory circuit, an animal study supported by the National Institutes of Health suggests. The more in-sync such electrical signals of neurons were in t...
(24/01/2013)
A new study of 152 Vietnam veterans with combat-related brain injuries offers the first detailed map of the brain regions that contribute to emotional intelligence – the ability to process emotional information and navigate the social world...
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